Not everyone in the city is being swept up in the team’s championship drive. Some are just trying to see a Broadway show, or spin some yarn.There is something in the air in New York, and it’s orange and blue.The city is crackling with a particular electricity that ...

A reader wonders whether they are for teenagers only.The current trend of crop tops is confusing to me. It is not exactly flattering for anyone with a fuller belly or bottom. Wearing a longer layer underneath the crop top doesn’t look polished. Is this a teens-only thing, or ...

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Conversations in New York City this week have been laced with a tinge of anxiety or excitement for Game 1 of the N.B.A. finals, which the Knicks played in on Wednesday night for the first time since 1999.The chatter inside Katz’s Delicatessen, on the Lower East Side, was ...

A campaign for ChatGPT relies on heartwarming retro vibes to sell a product that has become a source of concern for most Americans.Artificial intelligence is going to cure cancer, solve life’s mysteries and liberate humankind from drudgery. But maybe, when all is said and done, it will give ...

Bravo’s reality TV hit has cracked an elusive audience.In the United States, this may be a summer of the World Cup and a historic Knicks performance. But it is also, for many, the season of a drama-filled Bravo reunion that has millions of viewers hooked. Especially men.“Summer House,” ...

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Brian ReaIn Aunt Dottie’s Eyes“What if that baby looks … Irish?” my grandma asked, squinting at my mama’s belly. Her sister Dottie laughed. “That’ll be up to Jesus.” That winter, out I came: full lips, broad ...

‘Most stories about wanting a kid end with having a kid.’Illustration by Brian ReaJoseph Osmundson spent years joking about having a baby with his best friend. But one day, she told Joe she was serious about it. Joe was elated. Growing up, he had always wanted to be ...

When Marilyn Monroe sang “I Wanna Be Loved by You,” she would have never expected that one day, 1,037 people would gather beneath her giant statue in downtown Palm Springs to dress as her in celebration of her 100th birthday as they did on Saturday, May 30th.In doing ...

Down in the bones of old New York, in the historic waterfront district of Lower Manhattan, Joana Avillez clutched her tattered copy of “The Bottom of the Harbor,” a 1959 book by Joseph Mitchell filled with tales of the neighborhood’s fishmongers, bearded sailors and giant rats.Avillez, a 39-year-old ...

Ask Spencer Pratt how he imagined his life would pan out and he’ll tell you he wanted to be Tom Cruise famous. Red carpets and premieres famous. Fame beyond the villainous notoriety he attained as a reality star in the 2000s that played out in tabloids and on ...

Korren Campbell wed Jake Degler along the Miles River at her ‘Oma’s’ Alhambra-style pink house, in Easton, Md.Korren Christina Campbell had always dreamed of getting married at her maternal grandmother’s “Pink Castle” in Easton, Md.“‘Yup, that will be my wedding,’” Campbell would often say, enchanted by her parents’ ...

Every lifestyle entrepreneur needs a home grand enough to serve as an aspirational backdrop. Martha Stewart had Turkey Hill, her historic farmhouse in Westport, Conn. Hannah Neeleman has Ballerina Farm, a 328-acre spread in Kamas, Utah.Nabela Noor found such a place two years ago, an 11,000-square-foot white-brick Georgian ...

The Bravo show ran alongside off-camera drama. And at an AMC screening of the reunion in New York City, viewers were ready to process it together.On Tuesday night, devotees of the Bravo series “Summer House” packed an AMC theater near Union Square. The gathering was not far from ...

Shiny, wraparound, functional — Oakleys at the French Open. Plus other tennis style moments and more.Maya Joint, a 20-year-old Australian tennis player, spent just 70 minutes on court as she fell in the first round of Roland Garros. It was more than enough time for the redhead to ...